Reinhold luckner and nikolaus luckner



\ CLOTHES LINE HANGER.

(Application filed 31, 1898.

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,205, dated August 2, 1898.

Application filed January 31, 1898. $erial No. 668,572. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, REINHOLD LUCKNER and NIKOLAUS LUOKNER, citizens of Germany, and residents of New York city, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Hangers, of

which the following is a specification.

hereinafter more fully pointed out.

In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved clothesline hanger, showing the line-carrying lever swung into the window; Fig. 2, a side view of the hanger, showing the lever swung out of the Window; Fig. 3, an enlarged front view,

partly in section, of the upper part of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4:, a detail of the jaws b b Fig. 5

is a detail showing the connection between bar I) and socket c.

The letter a represents a lever having a long and a short arm and pivoted at a" to a bar I), the squared end of which engages a squared socket c, which is attached to the outer window-frameor wall of a building. The lever a carries at each end a pulley cl 61, over which the clothes-line A is run from the yard-post i, as indicated in Fig. 1. The barb is provided in front of lever a with a fixed arm e, which extends first upwardly and then outwardly and carries at its free end a pulley f. This pulley is held in fixed bearings and is placed in a common vertical plane with the pulleys cl d.

In use the lever a is swung, with its long arm, into the room, Fig. 1, and the wash is attached to theline and run out into the yard. After all the wash has been attached the lever is swung into a vertical position with its long arm downward, Fig. 2. This will cause 'the'pulleys d d to be placed back of the revoluble pulley f, and thus the latter will engage the upright portion of the line between such pulleys to form a bend. in the same. This bend will compensate for the decrease in the distance between pulleys d d and the yard-post B when the lever is swung from its horizontal into its vertical position, and thus any slack in suchline will be taken up and the line will be held perfectly taut.

In order to lock the lever a in both of its terminal positions, we provide a spring-latch g, guided in bearings a of lever a and engaging either one of a pair of perforations h 7L2, formed at right angles to one another within a fixed collar h of bar I).

To permit the hanger to be pointed straight toward the yard-post B, we make the bar Z) sectionahFig. 4,\vith overlapping disk-shaped ends or jaws. One of these disks, 1), is provided onits inner face with radial ribs and the other disk, 6 is provided 011 its corresponding face with radial grooves.

A clamp-screw b passing centrally through the disks, permits them to be firmly clamped together. To adjust the position of the hanger, the screw 12 is slackened and the hanger is so set that it points substantially to the yardpost, after which the screw is again tightened up to cause the jaws b b to become firmly interlocked.

WVhat we claim is 1. A clothes-line hanger composed of a lever, pulleys at the ends of the same, a fixed arm extending forwardly from the lever-fulcrum, and a pulley carried by such arm, substantially as specified.

2. -A clothes-line hanger composed of a lever having arms of unequal length, pulleys at the ends of the same, a bar for pivotally supporting the lever, a fixed arm projecting upwardly and forwardly from such bar, and a pulley carried by the outer end of the arm substantially as specified.

8. A clothes-line hanger composed of a lever, pulleys at the ends of the same, a bar for pivotally supporting the lever, a fixed arm projecting forwardly from such bar, a pulley carried by the outer end of the arm, and a spring-latch for lockingthe lever in its terminal positions, substantially. as specified.

4. A clothes-line hanger composed of a le- Signed by us, at New York city, New York, ver, pulleys at the ends of the same, a divided this 29th day of J annary, 1898. bar for pivotally supporting the lever, and REINHOLD LUC KNER. having a. pair of interlocking jaws, a fixed NIKOLAUS LUOKNER.

5 arm projeetingforwardly from such bar, and Witnesses:

a pulley carried by the outer end of the arm, FRANK V. BRIEsEN,

substantially as specified. WILLIAM SOHULZ. 

